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Our final Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet starts this Tuesday July 15th at the Bridewell Theatre. It plays Tues – Fri @1pm till Aug 1st. Come and see it! Our last show got 100 a day average audience and sold out the last week so do BOOK OR GET THERE EARLY.
We are delighted to have guest director REBECCA MANSON JONES on Romeo and Juliet. Also introducing 3 new graduates from Arts Ed.
When Jane falls in love with the perfect man, she finds in herself the perfect woman – meet Elizabeth Bennet. When her real-life romance sours, she sentences Elizabeth and herself to marriages of duty. Darcy may save Lizzy but only the author can save herself.
8 January – 2 February
Tues – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 2.30pm
Tickets £13/£10 concs
Tabard Theatre
2 Bath Road, London, W4 1LW
Tube: Turnham Green
(turn right out of station)
Box Office 0844 847 2264
ONE NIGHT STAND
By Natalie Li
Hen and Chickens
BOY meets girl, boy takes girl home, the rest is history. But in this play the consequences are far more disturbing, and leave quite a bitter resonance.
Lyn (Katie Russell) and Dave (Stephen Rahman-Hughes), are two 20-something professionals. They meet in the Paradise Club on a typical drunken night out.
What initially appears to be a night of casual sex catapults into a full-on rape investigation where the victims are not just Lyn and Dave, but their nearest friends and loved ones who are also drawn into the nightmare saga.
Is this just a crazy alcohol-fuelled evening of hazy memories, or is Dave guilty?
Despite the verdict, we will never discover the truth. What dominates the play is the breakdown of relationships.
From Dave’s girlfriend (Susan Bracken) to Lyn’s best friend (Fliss Walton), the extent of disintegration caused by one night of inebriation is unveiled. The plot takes its mini twists, and all are pulled together through the simple staging and nightclub/bar soundtrack.
The C Company, a young group of actors, directors and writers have successfully worked together on this tight piece of theatre to portray the reality of casual sex prevalent within our culture today.
Writer, Simon Warne, winner of the London Writers competition in 2000, depicts the repercussions of a drunken night on the tiles through a strong fresh cast of actors who identify the sexual tensions and anxieties surrounding the topical subject.
The exploration of this delicate subject is cast upon with neither judgement nor used as a morality tale. Instead it succinctly and unassumingly conveys the known facts, leaving us to create our own assumptions.
Until May 5
020 7704 2001
See original review online here.
We are holding a special gala night on Friday April 20th 7.30pm. Tickets are £25. As well as including a ticket for the play you will be entitled to drinks and nibbles after the show and an opportunity to discuss informally what you have seen with the cast and creative team . This event will be held in the theatre and is on a strictly first come first served basis. Tickets are only available via this website (contact us to book) or from company members. We sincerely hope you will come to this one off event. Your support will be invaluable for the company’s future ongoing projects and is very much appreciated.